ERIC Number: EJ1317348
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Nov
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1525-822X
EISSN: N/A
The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation
Weaver, Lesley Jo; Henderson, Nicole; Hadley, Craig
Field Methods, v33 n4 p372-387 Nov 2021
Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses.
Descriptors: Food, Dietetics, Hunger, Consumer Economics, Sharing Behavior, Coping, Poverty, Sociocultural Patterns, Females, Heads of Households, Community Attitudes, Rural Areas, Geographic Isolation, Foreign Countries
SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2814
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Brazil
Grant or Contract Numbers: BCS1559785